. . . And, of course, I had no proof that they were responsible. It was a gut feeling. That's why it's great that my road manager was there to help me. Otherwise, I would have been in jail. His death stinks, I'll tell you. . . . So I found this note by the side of the bed, read it, and thought it was a suicide note. I'm not saying that he set out that night to deliberately commit suicide, but he had the will to die. He might have said . . . fuck it, I can't deal with this shit anymore . . . I want to play and they won't let me. I've been there too in that same state of mind. You get really depressed and real suicidal . . . only an artist can explain that. . . . Yeah, the guy had tripped out on LSD, and I have been inside the same hallucination where I saw Jesus or Buddah together or seperate - or the devil . . . many times . . . . . . what I think was that he was doing too much dope to be in the public eye situation he was in and to be surrounded by all the 'yes people' he was around by the time Jeffery had taken control. Everybody was saying things like, "Yes Jimi . . . have this one Jimi . . ."

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